Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Brassica napus

I prefer the Latin name to the common English name, at least in a title of a post. In German, it’s called Raps.

For Cee and Breen, for Flower of the Day and Floral Friday

for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday

Babe in the woods

His consolation may be that The saying is written on the inside wall of the Rote Moschee (red mosque) in the palace gardens of the Schwetzinger Castle. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lone

Get Smart!

Maxine Smart was a spy with a special zeal. In her career she had installed microphones in teapots, snail shells, in villas and cottages.  But this was the ultimate undercover case. She would expose the agent from Botswana, rescue the former president of SWAPO from Namibia and with one foul swoop secure a year’s production of diamonds from Orapa. It would make her immortal!

Can You Tell a Story in … 64 words including zeal, microphone, snail, cottage, immortal, teapot

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He lived it

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela

NB: I have no idea why that person, a fan at a rugby game, wore Mandela’s name on the no. 7 jersey. The famous jersey Nelson Mandela wore at the 1995 world cup was that of the captain Francois Pienaar, i.e. no. 6.

Wednesday Quotes: Conquering Fear